NYT Splitting Mitt's Hair

The NYT splits hairs in  a front page below-the-fold colossal waste of column inches on Mitt Romney's hair with the snide head: The Image Expert Who Shapes Romney (His Hair, Anyway).

• By far his most distinctive physical feature, Mr. Romney’s head of impeccably coiffed black hair has become something of a cosmetological Rorschach test on the campaign trail, with many seeing in his thick locks everything they love and loathe about the Republican candidate for the White House. (Commanding, reassuring, presidential, crow fans; too stiff, too slick, too perfect, complain critics.) 
• Mr. Romney’s advisers have been known to fret about the shiny strands, and his rivals have sought to turn them against him. Asked by the late-night-television host Jimmy Fallon on Monday what word she associated with Mr. Romney, a businessman, Olympics executive and governor, Representative Michele Bachmann replied, “Hair.” 

NYT quotes Romney's longtime barber: “He is a very controlled man. The hair goes with the man.”

Romney pays a fraction of John Edwards's infamous $400 haircuts or Bill Clinton's $200 plane-delaying tarmac emergency trim: $70. 

No dye or molding products.

• Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, declined to comment on the candidate’s hairstyle, or to make Mr. Romney available to discuss it. Advisers describe Mr. Romney, whose hectic schedule has landed him in barbershops from Atlanta to New York City (where his cut costs $25), as uninterested in the finer points of his appearance. The same cannot be said of his advisers. In 2007, the last time Mr. Romney ran for president, they drafted a 77-page PowerPoint presentation on his strengths and weaknesses, which later fell into the hands of a reporter. 
• His hair was listed as a potential turnoff. 
• Mr. Romney’s age-defying hair is an asset, especially with women.

It's equally stupid for the media to wring its collective hands over Obama does he or doesn't he dye his rug. Or Hillary's hair incarnations.  O, what does it all MEAN?

I'm more intrigued with political plastic surgery, Botox, spacklers, sand blasters, and other Joe Biden tools of the trade.